Card-index case.



E. A. YUNGEL. GARD INDEX GASE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.18, 1908.

E. A. YUNGEL.

GARD INDEX CASE.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 18. 1908.

Patented Aug. 31, 1909. EE.. ES'HEETS-SHEBT 2.

UW ,m d L WITNESS/SS ATTORNEYS EDWARD A. YUNGEL, or NEW'YORK, N. Y.

CARD-INDEX CASE.

Specicatoii of Letters Patent.

l Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

Appucation med November-1s, 190s. serial No. 463,180.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known thatl, EDWARD A. YUNGEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of thc city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Card-Index Case, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention has for its purpose to pro'- vide a card index case inwhich it will be impossible to place a card out of its correct position, and may be broadly defined as consisting of a card-holding receptacle, with the bottom thereof havin card-engaging members located in relative y different positions for each card or set of cards the case is to contain and without interruption between adjacent members.

Reference is to be hadto the accompanying drawings formino' a part of this specifii cation, in which s1 ar characters of refer'- enee indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a. perspective view of a card ease embodying my invention and showing one side of the case removed, as when withdrawing or inserting the bottom strips; Fig. 2 is ay plan of the case; Fig. 3 is a. perspective view of one of the bottom strips; Flg. 4 is a cross-section through the case showmg the intertitting portions between the bottom edge of the card and the bottom of thecase; Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the case directly at the front of the vshield joining the ends of separated projections or m-mbers of the boti tom strips; Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modified form of case; Fig. 7 is a' erspective View of one of the bottom strips or the case shown in Fig. 6; and Fig. 8 is a fragmentary plan of the case shown in Fig. 6.'

My invention may form a feature of any inde-X card-holding receptacle, that shown in the several figures being in the nature of a dra'wer, which drawer 10, in Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, has the sides 11 removably attached, this being effected by providing tongues 12 at the opposite ends of each side, which tit the slotted edges of the rear and front ends of the drawer, in which positions the sides are held in place by vertical pins 13 carried by the ends and passing through the tongues of the sides. In the bottom of the receptacle is placed close together a series of cross strips 14, each having one or more projections 15 on its upper face, preferably two, arranged close together, with the proprojections.

jections of one strip arranged slightly to one side of or out of alinement with the projections of the adjacent strips, and all of said projections presenting continuous Aribs as it were, extending diagonally across the bottom of the receptacle. At the point where the projections reach the side of the card receptacle t-he rows start at the opposite side, and the Aends of the two rows are connected by a shield 16. The width of the cross strips. 14 is such as to be equal to the thickness of a single index card or set of cards, the latter being notched or cut out on their bot-tom ledges to lit over the projections 15 at the required point of the receptacles length.

' After the cards have been fitted to the receptacle it willibe impossible to seat a card in a different position in the case from that intended, as the card will standup above the others a distance equalto the height of the The shield 16 prevents the insertion of a card forward of one set of projections and at the rear of the other, whichwould otherwise be possible to dov by cooking the card slightly to one side.

The sides 11 of the card -h'olding receptacle, it will be observed from Figs. and

5, are rabbeted on their bottom inner edges as indicated at 17, to receive the ends of the strips 14 and lock them against vertical dis.

placement.. At the front of the receptacle is a knob 18, having a threaded shank bearing on a plate 19, and serving both as a handle .for the drawer and for pressing the cross strips 14 closely together, t-he plate 19 being arranged on the outer face of the end strip, and preventin the screw from indenting the wood. The fgollower plate is preferably guided'in a dovetailed groove 20 formed in the bottom of the drawer or receptacle, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

The construction illustratedrin Figs. 6, 7 and 8, is in all respects the same as that just described, except that. the sides of the drawer Ior receptacle are relatively immovable and the ends ofthe cross trips are slot- In applying my invention to a card index case having a series of card holders or drawers, the projections on the cross strips for each drawer will be differently arranged in order that a card from one drawer may not fiiidvits Way to another drawer.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters iiatent:

1. A card-holding receptacle, with the bottom thereof having card-engaging members located in relatively different positions for each card or set of cards the case is to contain and Without interruption between adj acentlmembers. L

2. An index card-holding receptacle having cross strips arranged in the bottom thereof, each strip having a projection'rising from the top face thereof to interfit with the bottom edge of a card, arranged out of alinement with the projections on adjacentstrips.

3. An index card-holding receptacle having relatively narrow lcross strips in the bottom thereof arranged close together with the ltop faces of the strips adj oining and presenting'a smooth surface, each strip having a member with which the bottom edge of the card interfits, and with the members of the different strips dierently arranged.

4. An index card-holding receptacle having a rib extending diagonally across the bottom thereof interfitting With the bottom edges of the'cards, the rib being composed of separable projections. j

5. An index card-holding receptacle having cross strips .y arranged in the bottom thereof, eachv cross strip having a projection extending its full Width, with which the -bottom edge of the card interts, the projection oii'each strip being differently located, and -a shield arranged between the projec` n tions of adjacent strips Where said projections are separated.

6. An index card-holding receptacle having removable sides, and cross strips having members intertting with the bottom edges of the'cards and locked in position by said sides.

ranged close together, each having members differently arranged and interfitting with v 7. An index card-holding receptacle having cross. strips in the bottomv thereof arthe bottom edges of thecards, with the ends v the cards, with the said projections arranged` along a line diagonal of thereceptacle.

l0. Any index card-holdin receptacle having sides rabbeted on their bottom inner edges, and a series of cross stri s arranged close together in the bottom of t e box, with the ends thereof projecting into the rabbeted inner edges of the sides of the receptacle, the stripshaviiig contacting members which the bottom edges of the cards interit, arranged contiguous to each other and diagonally of the receptacle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in the presence oftivo subscribing Witnesses. ,Y

EDVARD A. YUNGEL.

Witnesses:

l/V'. lV. Hoi/r, JOHN P. DAvis.

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